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How Cold Was It?
Temperatures fell like a rock last night once the winds died down, but there was some huge variations depending on your location.
Our place in the Champlain Valley of Vermont fell to -16F. But Burlington and Saranac Lake were much warmer.
Meanwhile, down in CT, our hill top location by the Sound only got to 13F, but places 10 miles inland fell to 0F. The coldest night of the season so far.
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Pretty cold on Mt Washington too. 24 hour conditions show a peak wind gust of 118mph early yesterday afternoon with a temp of about -10 at the time. The current summit temperature is climbing really rapidly over the last few hours and the forecast shows summit highs in the upper 20s by tomorrow. Quite the change!
Mark
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I'd be interested to hear Bill's theory about why his location in the Champlain Valley of Vermont was so much colder than Burlington. Topography, with sinking cold air? Or you're actually at a higher elevation? Wouldn't think latitude (whatever it might be) would make much of a difference. I'm sure you have an idea.
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Not latitude. Topography is more important than absolute elevation. We're a few hundred feet higher than BTV, but instead of being on a flat airfield we are in a very small sink at the edge of a swamp.
The major factor was wind. BTV never really went calm where as my location did. BTV hit -7, Saranac Lake -13 and our farm at -16. With calm winds cold air can settle to the lowest points. Looking closely at my data I can see that the temperature fluctuated by as much as 5 degrees with even a 1mph puff of wind.
Proximity to Lake Champlain has something to do with it as well. Not in driving the actually temperature up, but keeping a steady breeze going as air rose above the relatively warm lake.
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Interesting. I live on the west side of Cape Ann, and windspeed and wind direction make a huge difference in temperature for us. I remember last summer during a heat wave the Weather Channel was reporting a temp in the low 70s because their data came from a place on Gloucester Harbor where the southerly wind came over the water and cooled everything down. On our side of Cape Ann, we would have needed a northwest wind to cool us down. We were at around 90 degrees at that same time, just a few miles away. By now the ocean has cooled down to the point that a northwest wind only makes us colder. (And that's pretty much what we get through the winter--like the past few days! Brrrr!.)
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On the Sound in CT we'll get that 70 or 80 degree day in April and right by the water it is in the 40s.
This is quite a bit different than the weather over New England this morning though. In your case the wind is advecting a different air mass over your location. This morning the wind was mixing up the cold air that had settled at the surface.
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I remember those spring days in Ct where we lived it would be in the 70's and we would head to the beach thinking it was going to be great but we were disappointed.
Steve
Is there really any BAD weather???
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It was -9 in Tamworth, NH at 5:30AM.I don't see how those brave souls atop Washington can go out into the weather they do LOL.
Diane
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Here are some readings from the NY and NH/ME NWS pages:
Code:TODAYS TODAYS 12 HOUR LOW HIGH PRECIPITATION STATION 18HRS - 7PM 18HRS - 7PM ENDING 7PM DUNKIRK NY 12 29 T BUFFALO NY 14 24 0.05 NIAGARA FALLS NY 16 25 0.04 ROCHESTER NY 17 27 T DANSVILLE NY 14 27 T PENN YAN NY 16 25 T ELMIRA NY 3 24 0.00 WATERTOWN NY -4 25 0.02 FULTON NY 18 24 0.03 SYRACUSE NY 14 26 T BINGHAMTON NY 12 22 T ROME NY 11 25 T MASSENA NY -15 23 T SARANAC LAKE NY -13 18 T GLENS FALLS NY -21 21 0.00 ALBANY NY 6 24 0.00 POUGHKEEPSIE NY -2 27 0.00 MONTGOMERY NY 5 25 0.00 LA GUARDIA AP NY 20 30 0.00 JFK AIRPORT NY 20 31 0.00 ISLIP NY 16 29 0.00 WESTHAMPTON BCH 6 31 0.00 PLATTSBURGH NY -9 20 T BURLINGTON VT -9 22 0.00 MORRISVILLE VT -12 16 0.00 MONTPELIER VT -9 19 0.01 ST JOHNSBURY VT -11 14 SPRINGFIELD VT -1 21 0.00 RUTLAND VT -4 21 0.00 BENNINGTON VT -8 24 0.00 NORTH ADAMS MA 7 25 0.00 PITTSFIELD MA 7 22 0.00 DANBURY CT -3 26 0.00 TDY THIS AM 24HR PCPN STATION MAX MIN ENDED THIS PM SNOW DEPTH MAINE... AUGUSTA 22 4 T BANGOR 18 -3 0.00 BAR HARBOR 18 3 0.00 CARIBOU 7 -4 T FRENCHVILLE 5 -6 0.00 FRYEBURG 22 -12 0.00 GRAY 22 2 0.00 14 GREENVILLE 14 -5 0.00 HOULTON 9 -2 0.00 LEWISTON 25 -4 MILLINOCKET 15 -1 0.00 PORTLAND 24 -1 0.00 PRESQUE ISLE 10 -2 0.00 ROCKLAND 21 7 SANFORD 27 3 WATERVILLE 21 3 0.00 WISCASSET 24 -8 0.00 NEW HAMPSHIRE... BERLIN 17 -3 0.00 CONCORD 23 1 0.00 8 JAFFREY 23 0 0.00 KEENE 23 -15 0.00 LACONIA 23 5 0.00 LEBANON 18 -14 0.00 MANCHESTER 26 0 0.00 13 MOUNT WASHINGTON 7 -19 0.00 24 PORTSMOUTH 25 8 0.00 17 ROCHESTER 24 8 0.00 WHITEFIELD 18 -23 0.00
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...and more from the CT page (which includes stations in other states)
Code:...EASTERN MASSACHUSETTS... 18 HR 12 HR 12 HR STATION MIN MAX PRECIPITATION BEDFORD 3 28 0.00 BEVERLY 7 25 0.00 BOSTON 15 28 0.00 BLUE HILL 9 25 0.00 LAWRENCE 8 25 0.00 NEW BEDFORD 15 27 0.00 NORWOOD 2 28 0.00 PLYMOUTH 13 26 0.00 TAUNTON 11 27 0.00 MARSHFIELD 12 28 M ...CAPE COD AND THE ISLANDS... 18 HR 12 HR 12 HR STATION MIN MAX PRECIPITATION CHATHAM 19 28 0.00 FALMOUTH 14 28 0.00 HYANNIS 16 30 0.00 MARTHAS VINEYARD 19 28 0.00 NANTUCKET 20 30 0.00 PROVINCETOWN 19 28 M ...CENTRAL AND WESTERN MASSACHUSETTS... 18 HR 12 HR 12 HR STATION MIN MAX PRECIPITATION FITCHBURG -7 28 0.00 ORANGE 2 25 0.00 SPRINGFIELD 1 25 0.00 WESTFIELD 6 26 0.00 WORCESTER 9 23 0.00 ...RHODE ISLAND... 18 HR 12 HR 12 HR STATION MIN MAX PRECIPITATION BLOCK ISLAND M M M NEWPORT 18 29 0.00 PROVIDENCE 14 28 0.00 SMITHFIELD 10 28 M WESTERLY 16 30 0.00 ...NORTHERN CONNECTICUT... 18 HR 12 HR 12 HR STATION MIN MAX PRECIPITATION BRADLEY INTL 6 26 0.00 HARTFORD 7 27 0.00 WILLIMANTIC 10 28 0.00 ...SOUTHWEST AND SOUTH CENTRAL NEW HAMPSHIRE... 18 HR 12 HR 12 HR STATION MIN MAX PRECIPITATION MANCHESTER -1 26 0.00 KEENE -15 23 M JAFFREY 0 23 0.00 NASHUA -6 27 M
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